Seattle daily post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, W.T. [Wash.]) 1881-1888, 1887-03-18

m. nav Board Of Comfy Commis
siouers viii meet today &C the A1disoF'
once.
This weather 10 anything but delight
fal for railroad buiiding % any esAs
cutside Work.
Daring wednesday night she watey Il
fhe skaQit river raised -four feet, % Cap
tain Bailey states.
The steamer Emma HsySAEd brought
70 this city last evening, from up so
souod, eighty nine passengers.
Tha steamer Msrwin arrived froa
Whatoorn At 10 9. %. yesterday, WITH I
sood passenger iist, has Light fraiQnt
The steamer Monroe arrived yssseE
day afternoon fEo@ anOhomtsh wsth
eosd list Of passengers sad = small
freight.
The steamer Nellie vas A9ated ch She
aand bar 10 the SnotIoD isA river and
pou lies a. snohomish City awaiting
orders.
A. Patriek's day pas ed OF qaietly
There vas c0neidaraoie dnglAy OF
green IN some quarters, but no disefdsI
OF any kind
Owing 70 the ipelsmenny Of the
vestheF. the attendance al the Fsa-
eibIes nsiI, last evening vas not a. large
Ss vas expeeted-
Sol Simpson u sill awaitinG orders 70
90 10 LATHE sksokom And oomneDee
eons,fuetlsn work for She Puget Sound
4 Oray's HaEbOr Railway Company.
Martin Hslssn and Allison n Ryan
vsge ssut 70 she c9anty ila yesterday
from Jusiics IL. r. Jones co1rt on q
charge Of selling liquor TO Indiana
The assa sship Alki, whieh reoentt,
toek a cargo Of coal " DOagias Island,
Alaska. has retuFusd and taken Q 70
turn cargo Of coal for San Ffaaotsss.
The Steamship walIa Walls lefE this
p9rt at $50 o'clock last evening" for San
Fgancisco. Her cargo consisted OF 20
tons Of coal cad 30 tons Of scrap ison.
The Fleetwood had light passenger
Iiss both ways yesterday, osinG 10 the
stormy weather. Ga her up trip she
took several IONS Of iron for Olympia
merchants
Ban. stretch, e. ShsE q Of Snohomish
e5untv. has started 40 his logging camp
on toe steiIsgoamish river. he arrived
here By she Glide yesterday TO lay IN
some Supplies.
A four dsys' EastsFn mail arrived
lass niQht, besides ths usasi California
ana local mail. Callers II the Pest
Ofice may reasonably expeca we'll allied
boxes this morning.
While discnssing the weather yssIer-
DAY, George Jaeobs said: II am in
hopes We will have strong Winds from
the north, TO blew this weather back 70
Oregon, where II belongs"
The class In chemistry Of The UGi-
veFsity last Wednesday evening we're
littls surpriasd whils txpefinentinR 10
the mystic art when an EXPLOSION o.
CARED, breaking one OF the windows 10
the room. No one haRt. Oiass sd-
ioaFDed.
The steamer Glide arrived 81 8 o'clock
yesterday afternoon from bkaeit, bring
ing nineteen caasenGeFs, TIE mails ana
small freight. Captain Bailey s4ys
that 90 the outgoing trip be took forty
ssven passengers from Seattle TO psinss
on the 5kaait.
An the loQQeFs along the Shaait river
are iaying "a supplies preparatory 10
starting 40 their camps a. soen - toe
weather will permit. One or tWO campo
have already started IN, bat the ground
h 60 soft that but little eau be acconI-
pishsd At present.
Two funerals took place In Seattle
Yesterday. That Of Mrs. sarah white
head, who died on Tuesday, from TIE
Battery Street Methodist Episcopal
Church, North Seattle, aud that OF Lin.
ME A. Hummell, from the residences OF
this parents, on Mill aEd Eleventh Streets
Notwithstanding the strife in Alex
audaE Allsn's shipyaEe, we ere retiaoiy
informed that MI. Allen has stcafed ali
tha ship oArpenteta he wanta, ana that
Abe repairs 20 the MAshok are gong
along Satisfactorily. None OF the mem
here Of the Association have returned
% work.
well-knovn steamboat nan said
YESTERDAY: Before the sumner IL over
there will be q marine railway 10 se
attic. Fhe matter IL alTeady assuming
share. bat I am net ct liberty 10 eay
anV more about ID al prescott. The
steamboat men are all lntsrsstsst In the
enterprise and will all take stock IN IA
George W. ssetson states that after he
ee's the WhatoOm mill tn good ranniag
order he will return 20 California aud
look after tbs business Of the arm on
ice other end Of the line. hat gentle
uau alsD states thai tue nrm has gate
a nnu,her Of orders below vet 70 BE-
filled, boa that no charters tot vessels
have been eiseed. owing 10 the htRh
freight rates at present demanded.
The suteHainment given undcr the
auspices Of the George Washington
btaneh Of the IFish NitionAl Land
League as the Chamber of Conmefce
rooms lAst evening vas grand success.
A GOOD pfogFaDmp had ssen prepared
aud every number vas we'll reud-rod.
PAftieularly nentionaSle vas the dnett
"Nhy do you watch the looe sea" by
the Misses Nunan and Moknnsy, hioh
vas read red 40 hse slyle. aud the
recitation Of Erin'e FisR,' BY NJ. Geo.
Thornton, yes also well Fecsivsd.
The injury to the steamer Anderson
vas not nearly % great as Al O ~ sup
pused. She broke tbe esoaahcAn 10 her
sir pump on her way 30 this city. bot
the damage was repaired yesterday ,an 4
she lefa on time last aight tsr Port
townsend. The accident only ocna :
stoned her the loss OF one trip from
herr 10 Tacoma. The City II Qltney
made this trip for her. TIC latter
Steamer should have left for SkARis
Yesterday morning. bat OF course vas
delayed, aud did not gel avay until !
s'olsok this morning.
Captain Bailey, Of the steamef Glide,
states that while be vas az Mount Yer
moo. on the Skasit river. yesterday.
there vas 10 sign Of snow, bat that .
heAvy rain vas falling. Ju-t before hts
steamer left nan came dOva the river
IN = canoe and reported one and one
bali feet OF snow twenty I'VE miles np
the river. Captain Bailey fuFthes states
thai bis informant Was = % roughly 70
l7ble and Trustworthy man. and tass ne
does not deubt the correctness Of his
story, although IL must be confessed %
sounds rather strange.
The sloop Adventurcr, CaptAiu VIII
ham Lake. tetufI I'd 10 Seattle yester
day afternoon. 10 couveFsatlon with
Mt LAks, be said. Several DAYS aga
Ne started out on a cruise. intending 20
10 Down among the Islands. bai AZ e.
We had been aat short tine pe turnsd
end seat ever - RlAke's LaiAnd, Shtr re
We heard thera was q boom of loss
adrtfL We sacceeded IN Piekink ~ =
lOna hsinFzotnaf ~ NtAfs0n a kfuRf sud